Lagging industry, Ford puts auto emergency brakes on two 2019 models

(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it will make automatic emergency brakes standard on two key 2019 models, an effort by the No. 2 U.S. automaker to catch up with rivals in offering the new technology designed to help vehicles avoid collisions.

12/27/2017 14:41:35

Roku puts ad chief in charge of platform business

Roku Inc. announced Wednesday that the head of its advertising business, Scott Rosenberg, will be promoted to lead the company's platform efforts. Rosenberg will take over for Steve Shannon, who plans to leave the company at the end of the year. Roku believes its streaming-television platform is the key to growth in its business, with money coming from advertising on the platform and its own Roku-branded channel, as well as royalties from companies that sell subscriptions on the Roku platform and licensing its technology to other companies like television manufacturers. Roku stock closed at $54.76 Tuesday, up more than 290% from the $14 price charged in its September initial public offering; the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 10.7% in that same time frame.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

11/30/2017 10:23:27

Nanotech, gene editing used to edit cholesterol gene-US study

U.S. and Russian researchers have used nanotechnology plus the powerful CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to turn off a key cholesterol-related gene in mouse liver cells, an advance that could lead to new ways to correct genes that cause high cholesterol and other liver diseases. Nanotechnology is the design and manipulation of materials thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair.